Edu humiliated. Ridiculously cheap.
Paddy wrote:5m for one of the best defenders in bundesliga last season
Özim wrote:What a terrible deal, is that really the best we could do?
Pathetic, this club is a joke, this would have been a good deal back in the 90s,
Meanwhile we want to pay 50 million for White
aniym wrote:Özim wrote:What a terrible deal, is that really the best we could do?
Pathetic, this club is a joke, this would have been a good deal back in the 90s,
Meanwhile we want to pay 50 million for White
Once the Xhaka deal is also completed, Arteta boosters will start pointing to net spend to justify buying Ben White for £50m.
Angelito wrote:CrimsonGunner11 wrote:KG3 wrote:Signing for Stuttgart for 7M absolute joke for one of the best young defenders in the Bundesliga last season, then theirs Chelsea who’ve just sold Tomori for nearly 30M.
It’s going to be funny when Bayern buy Mavropanos in a year or so, leaving Arsenal looking stupid as usual
Yeah. Just like Emi Martinez, I’m afraid we could be losing a potentially good player for next to nothing. Don’t understand why it’s hard for us to ask for more money for our players.
if no one can meet the valuation then just keep loaning the player out until the player is ready to start for us
Well, that's the case since we don't actually want him here. Once it's in the agents' ears that we don't want to retain certain players, their value plummets.
The situation would be different if clubs approached Saka or ESR. We won't get top money for them, but we won't behave like pushovers either.
Santi wrote:Signed for less than 2m, sold for 5m plus last seasons loan fee. Not bad business for a guy who played less than 10 games for us and got himself sent off.
If he turns out any good then the sell on clause will bring us a few more ££, Stuttgart can't afford anymore at the moment anyway.
Özim wrote:Santi wrote:Signed for less than 2m, sold for 5m plus last seasons loan fee. Not bad business for a guy who played less than 10 games for us and got himself sent off.
If he turns out any good then the sell on clause will bring us a few more ££, Stuttgart can't afford anymore at the moment anyway.
Are you kidding?
We bought him as a kid, he’s been playing regularly and performing very well in Germany for a couple seasons and we actually sold him for 3.5 million including the loan fee, the bonuses might not even happen, if you think that 5 million is a good deal when Liverpool sold Brewster who hadn’t even played top level football for 24 million you need to adjust your expectations. With his wages we’ve had to pay since the time we signed him we’re probably not far off breaking even.
It’s an awful deal for a player worth 3-4 times that and I can’t believe anyone would think it was a good deal, as I said before it would have been a good deal back in the 90s, but definitely not now.
If you want to see another awful deal, 50 million for White with only one season at the top level would be one, it’s actually laughable if we pay anywhere near that, he could turn out to be absolute rubbish.
Özim wrote:Santi wrote:Signed for less than 2m, sold for 5m plus last seasons loan fee. Not bad business for a guy who played less than 10 games for us and got himself sent off.
If he turns out any good then the sell on clause will bring us a few more ££, Stuttgart can't afford anymore at the moment anyway.
Are you kidding?
We bought him as a kid, he’s been playing regularly and performing very well in Germany for a couple seasons and we actually sold him for 3.5 million including the loan fee, the bonuses might not even happen, if you think that 5 million is a good deal when Liverpool sold Brewster who hadn’t even played top level football for 24 million you need to adjust your expectations. With his wages we’ve had to pay since the time we signed him we’re probably not far off breaking even.
It’s an awful deal for a player worth 3-4 times that and I can’t believe anyone would think it was a good deal, as I said before it would have been a good deal back in the 90s, but definitely not now.
If you want to see another awful deal, 50 million for White with only one season at the top level would be one, it’s actually laughable if we pay anywhere near that, he could turn out to be absolute rubbish.
Özim wrote:Santi wrote:Signed for less than 2m, sold for 5m plus last seasons loan fee. Not bad business for a guy who played less than 10 games for us and got himself sent off.
If he turns out any good then the sell on clause will bring us a few more ££, Stuttgart can't afford anymore at the moment anyway.
Are you kidding?
We bought him as a kid, he’s been playing regularly and performing very well in Germany for a couple seasons and we actually sold him for 3.5 million including the loan fee, the bonuses might not even happen, if you think that 5 million is a good deal when Liverpool sold Brewster who hadn’t even played top level football for 24 million you need to adjust your expectations. With his wages we’ve had to pay since the time we signed him we’re probably not far off breaking even.
It’s an awful deal for a player worth 3-4 times that and I can’t believe anyone would think it was a good deal, as I said before it would have been a good deal back in the 90s, but definitely not now.
If you want to see another awful deal, 50 million for White with only one season at the top level would be one, it’s actually laughable if we pay anywhere near that, he could turn out to be absolute rubbish.
ag6789 wrote:No money in Bundesliga, other than BM. Hence they can't buy at high prices. Mavropanos would have returned if we asked for 20-30 mil.
Any player in PL goes for at least 40 mil nowadays especially young English players. So I'm not surprised that BHA are holding on for 50mil for Ben. They know Arsenal has money so they can milk us for a decent sum.
That's why Wenger rarely went for buys from PL.